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  • noun Plural form of retry.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retry.

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Examples

  • Girard has also had clients who allow more than 10 password retries before deactivating a device.

    ARN News 2010

  • Girard has also had clients who allow more than 10 password retries before deactivating a device.

    ARN News 2010

  • The tips include some fairly standard measures such as enforcing use of pass codes and using complex pass codes, locking the device after a maximum number of password retries, enforcing device timeout to prevent theft of data when a device is unused, select disabling of YouTube, App Store and iTunes, preventing capture of screenshots, and installing certificates for VPN use.

    Computerworld 2010

  • The tips include some fairly standard measures such as enforcing use of pass codes and using complex pass codes, locking the device after a maximum number of password retries, enforcing device timeout to prevent theft of data when a device is unused, select disabling of YouTube, App Store and iTunes, preventing capture of screenshots, and installing certificates for VPN use.

    Macworld Matt Hamblen 2010

  • Girard has also had clients who allow more than 10 password retries before deactivating a device.

    ARN News 2010

  • Girard has also had clients who allow more than 10 password retries before deactivating a device.

    ARN News 2010

  • For example, if someone gets locked out of a server because of too many password retries, maybe they just fat fingered it.

    ISP-Planet 2009

  • And will the government be spending wisely if it retries Roger Clemens this spring for lying to Congress about steroids?

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012

  • NASCAR wants to see races end under green… but I think they need to possibly add cap to the number of retries… otherwise some races might become fuel mileage races if we had too many retries!

    NASCAR: Green White Checkered Rule Change [update] 2010

  • A scientist might wonder whether there was a mistake if a result seems to be the opposite of what he predicted, but he doesn't simply throw out the results; he checks his own assumptions, perhaps he retries the experiment, he studies the inputs and outputs, and then perhaps tries an additional measure.

    At First Glance: Bias in the Media, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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